Portable fruit-displayer.



W. P. GRANDALL.

PORTABLE FRUIT DISPLAIER. APPLICATION FILED APRI28.1910.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

fwverfan' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

WILLIAM FRED CRANDALL, OF JASPER, MISSOURI, ASSIGNQR OF ONE-HALF TO VIRGIL HENRY HENDRICKS, OF JASPER, MISSOURI.

PORTABLE FRUIT-DISPLAYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 29, 1910.

Application filed April 28, 1910. Serial No. 558,315.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM FRED GRAN- DALL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jasper, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Portable FruitDisplayer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to portable fruit stands or racks, and has for its object a provision of simple means whereby various kinds of fruits can be displayed to proper advantage, there being means combined with the device for handling bunches of bananas so that they will be properly displayed at all times, and can be readily lowered or raised should it be desired to handle them or to return them to positions where they can be properly displayed.

A further object is to provide means whereby the banana support may be held against tilting by the weightof the other fruits held by the rack.

Another object is to provide a display rack or stand which is of simple construction, and which is cheap to manufacture.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of the display rack or stand. Fig. 2 is a section on line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the base, the partitions and standard being removed. Fig. i is a section on the line 1t of Fig. 3.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference, 1 designates a tub like base having crossed reinforcing strips 2 secured upon the bottom thereof and extending throughout the diameter of the said bottom, one of these strips being bent downwardly at its center, as indicated at 3, so as to accommodate the middle portion of the other strip between said bent portion and the bottom of the base. Supporting rollers 4c or the like may be connected to the end portions of the strips 2 so as to enable the structure to be readily rolled from place to place. The sirips 2 are secured to the bottom of the base by means of rivets or the like, and certain of these rivets, which have been indicated at 5, may be extended through a plate 6 mounted on the center portion of the bottom of the base and having an interiorly screwthreaded tubular extension 7 upon the center thereof. A

A tubular standard 8 is screwed into the extension 7 and has wings 9 radiating from the bottom portion thereof and adapted,

when the standard is in engagement with the extension 7, to contact with the wall of the base 1 and thus divide the interior of the said base into separate compartments, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1. An extension 10 is secured to the upper end of the standard 8 and is connected, by means of a T 11, with oppositely extending arms 12. Each of these arms has a hanger 13 supporting a sheave 14: and secured to the extension 10 and close to the T 11 is a bracket 15 having separate sheaves 16 and 17 journaled therein. A cord 18 or the like is secured at one end tothe free end of one of the arms 12 and extends through a pulley block 19 carry ing an S hook 20. This cord then passes over the sheaves 1a and 17 and thence downwardly along the extension 10, there being a cleat 21 secured to this extension, and about which the free end of the cord is adapted to be wrapped. This cleat is within convenient reach of a person standing adjacent the stand or rack. Another cord 22 is secured at one end to the free end portion of the other arm 12 and passes through a pulley block 23 supporting an S hook 24: and then extends over the adjacent sheave 14: and the sheave 16 from which it extends downwardly to another cleat 25 attached to the extension 10.

In using the stand or rack which has been described different varieties of fruits or the like are placed within the respective compartments in the base 1 and by detaching either or both of the cords from the cleats 21 and 25 the hooks and 24 may be lowered and placed in engagement with the stems of bunches of bananas. By then pulling on the cords these bunches can be elevated to points adjacent the outer ends of arms 12 and after the cords have been secured to the cleats 21 and said bunches will be held suspended at points where they can be conveniently seen. To lower a bunch for the purpose of detaching bananas therefrom, it is merely necessary to release the cord from its holding means. It will be seen that by using the base as a fruit holder,

tilting of the device under the weight of the I suspended bunches of fruit will be prevented. The entire rack can be readily taken apart for the purpose of storing or transporting it, by unscrewing the standard 8 from the extension 7, and then disengaging the extension 10 from the standard. Arms 12 can also be disengaged from the T 11 and the entire device can thus be stored in a very small space.

Various changes can, of course, bemade in the construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the in-v vention as definedin theappended claim.

What is claimed is A display raclrincluding a tub-like base, crossed reinforcing strips secured upon the bottom thereof and extending throughout the diameter of said bottom, a plate upon the centerportion of the bottom of the base and having an interiorly screwthreaded tu bular extension, means extending through the plate and strips for securing them to the base, a tubular standard screwed into the extension, wings radiating from the bottom portion of the standard and adapted to contact with the wall of the base and divide the interior of said base into separate compartments, an extension on the upper end of the standard, oppositely extending arms thereon, and means upon each arm for engaging and-raising or lowering an article to be dis- :played. 

